Israel and the Apocalypse: A Key of Interpretation
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008With the message of Israel, my inmost being is called into participation of a radical kind as it brings a corrective against soulish counterfeits and lesser alternatives in the earnestness of what is at stake.
On Denying Reality: A Formula for Madness
Monday, March 24th, 2008From the perspective of faith, that is, seeing things as God sees them, the denial of Christ, [His Advent, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension] nay, the unwillingness to grant Him even scant attention, has got to be the greatest anomaly of all times.
The Nations in Relation to God
Monday, March 24th, 2008We are all familiar with the Scripture, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, and the nations and those that dwell therein.” We have quoted this Scripture many times, but we have not really believed it, and have therefore allowed the nations to indulge themselves in their independence as if they have no obligation to God.
Paul on the Road to Damascus
Friday, March 21st, 2008The Fountainhead of Paul’s Gospel and the Genius of Apostolic
Naïveté: The Tragic Beheading of Nicholas Berg
Thursday, March 20th, 2008In essence, what cost an individual his head and life, a naïve idealism totally unrelated to the historic realities of the Arab-Islamic world, may corporately cost the USA the same. If we continue to reject the truth of God and of man as revealed in Scripture, and in God crucified, our every consideration is warped and awry
Critiquing the Visions of the Last Days
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008It is only with some reluctance that we are responding to a request (2004) to give an evaluation of two videos we have been given to consider that have to do with an End Time vision of judgment upon America – given by prominent American ministers of the gospel.
On Witnessing to Jews
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Some Do’s and Don’ts in bringing the gospel to the Jewish people.
Messianic Conference Report: The Morning After
Monday, March 17th, 2008Again, I had the strange sense of being entirely “out of it” in the midst of a whole congregation, mostly women, greatly moved to dance in the aisles and on the platform. They were playing loud, recorded Israeli-type music whose lyrics were shown overhead. Meanwhile the kippur and tallis-wearing ‘rabbi’ intones appropriate solemnities and incitements […]
Opposing Views on the Death of Jesus
Friday, March 14th, 2008Are they aware that in the process of denial in dismissing the veracity of the gospels, they are in one fell swoop negating the creed of hundreds of millions who have predicated their faith [its suffering, sacrifice, and martyrdom] on just that basis?
In the Year of King Uzziah’s Death
Thursday, March 13th, 2008The present state of Israel, like the “prophet mighty in word and deed,” like King Uzziah himself, is God-given, but given in order to be taken away!
Deep Calling Unto Deep
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008I have long suspected that the deepest issues that are at the root of strife and division in the Body of Christ are not at the level of doctrine. Doctrine is often employed as the subterfuge beneath which the real issues of fear, insecurity and mistrust are too often concealed.
On Atonement
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008In view of Leviticus 17:11, ought we not, as Jews, to consider that, “without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sin”?
Counsel to a Distressed Wife
Monday, March 10th, 2008From a letter of counsel for a wife in time of distress and estrangement from her spouse. I suspect that there are circumstances in your past that affect how you perceive things that could exaggerate your fears and heighten your insecurity. That is true for all of us. Over a process of time, the Lord […]
Reclaiming the Gospel
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The very reduction of Paul’s glorious gospel to a formula for salvation to those who “accept” the Lord almost assures that what will follow will itself be nominal and fall short of the light of the glory which Paul proclaims.
An Answer to Ethnic Identity
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008A word particularly for the black community (adapted from a letter written to a sister) Our identity in God is an enormously significant subject. I understand (in measure) the terrible depletion of the Black Man in America and the great need for a self-esteem, dignity and identity in the very area in which he has […]
Some Thoughts on the Law and Grace
Saturday, March 1st, 2008In my conversations with my unsaved rabbi friends, we frequently reach a snag. Though we are totally dedicated in our pursuit of the same God—I by grace, and he by Law—it is difficult for me to express why I am unable to “keep the commandments” he thinks incumbent upon any who profess to believe in God.
Ask for the Ancient Paths
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Anyone whose heart aches for the Jew – and for the nation Israel – recognizes that, indeed, we are at a crossroad.
The Reality Principle
Monday, February 25th, 2008Something is being pressed just now upon my consciousness that has been percolating for some time in my inner being. A recent two hour conversation with an unbelieving Jewish man made me to further realize that I am definitely at odds with the world, its logic, and its premises.
The Chosen People: Chosen for What?
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008As Jews, one thing that makes us recoil is being called “chosen.” It is something like the involuntary shudder that comes with the screech of chalk on a blackboard. After all, what has being chosen ever meant to us but trouble?
True Repentance for the German and the Jew
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Instead of seeking relief from the guilt of the Holocaust in some kind of self-serving way, we need to be reminded that God recognizes only one kind of repentance for all people and for all ages, the fruit of which can be known in how we respond to the Jew in our midst.
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